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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:51:41 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use __attribute__((malloc)) for gcc 3.2
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Hi Andi,

> Also added an noinline macro to wrap __attribute__((noinline)). That's 
> not used yet. It tells the compiler that it should never inline, which
> may be useful to prevent some awful code generation for those misguided
> folks who use -O3 (gcc often screws up the register allocation of a 
> function completely when bigger functions are inlined). 

Could you also add an always inline? It would be useful for functions
like context_switch, where we require it to be inlined (otherwise it
falls outside scheduling_functions_{start,end}_here and wchan handling
fails).

Anton
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